Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Troubled by Echeverria's uncertain response to the fiscal crisis, Mexican and foreign investors were bothered this year by the fact that the President was not behaving at all like a lame duck. While López Portillo was busy campaigning, the mercurial "Don Luis" continued working an 18-hour day-fueling rumors spread by his conservative critics that he intended to stay in power, possibly by means of a military coup. His last major act as President was a political shocker. Charging that wealthy landlords had violated Mexican law by masking their holdings under relatives' names, Echeverria...
...just the opposite is the problem," Perry said. "Students now narrow down their career possibilities very early to ensure success, yet still feel uncertain and insecure about their chances of making...
...Turks looked at America as the only Western country true to its ideals and respectful of human rights. A later political association between Turkey and America began with the Truman Doctrine in 1947, an imaginative and bold decision to lend support to Turkey and Greece during the bleak and uncertain period of the early postwar period. Turkey's membership in the NATO alliance in the ensuing years created a stronger link between the two countries...
United's order was particularly significant. Only last year the airline shocked the industry by canceling plans to buy 50 planes because of the uncertain economic outlook. Its new planes, like those for the other carriers, will be replacements only and will not increase the size of United's fleet. United will trade in 28 of its old DC-8s to Boeing and will finance the purchase with existing cash plus money generated internally from earnings and depreciation. It will be getting quieter, more economic planes. Each of them, United executives estimate, will save 1,300 gallons...
...generally poorer and less well educated than Republicans: "If you're listening, Averell Harriman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Harvard, I hope you'll forgive me." CBS'S Dan Rather tried to brighten the proceedings with some well-honed metaphors. Assessing Gerald Ford's uncertain prospects in the Midwest, Rather declared: "You can pour water on the fire and call in the dogs, because the hunt will be over...